Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although I do not choose to argue with the southern football claim, I must take issue with the imminently dubious argument of southern basketball superiority...
...unpopular political beliefs, Ali, since re-emerging into the harsh glare of center ring, is no longer the lightning quick and powerful fighter who was banished for prophetically asserting that as an American, he "had no quarrel with them Viet Cong." As penalty for this vision, which he could claim long before it came into vogue, Ali was stripped, not only of his livelihood and title, but of his incomparable skills as well...
Tonight's fight will not determine the heavyweight champion of the world. George Foreman has staked his claim quite convincingly to that role. Rather, tonight's battle must be viewed as a showdown between two fighters, each champions in their own era, seeking to brake the slide from the top. It is a fight for survival...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk's attitude towards Hanoi: "The theory in both cases is that all would be well if only the North let its neighbors alone." His incisive prose defuses the force of their paranoia: One almost expects to hear Eastland and Stennis ask how Washington can claim to be for peaceful coexistence and yet insist on supporting "wars of liberation" in the South, or accuse old Ho Chi Johnson of persisting in his dastardly ambition to reunify the country...
What completes Stone's contribution, what makes his indignation and determination so refreshing, is that they are combined with an iconoclasm directed even at himself. Stone makes no claim to be the suffering crusader; his greatest joy has been the freedom to live true to his faith--a fairly pessimistic view of humanity's worst impulses mixed with a continuing optimism that the social order may hold them in check: To give a little comfort to the oppressed, to write the truth exactly as I saw it, to make no compromises other than those of quality imposed by own inadequacies...